Division-plate for egg-cases.



vDIVISION PLATE FOR BGG 0AsBs. y APPLICATION FILED JULY 29, 1904. EENEWD AUG. 21, 1906.

190.047,954. PATBNTBD MAR. 19, 1907.

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` I -DIVISION PLATE FORlE-GG GASES'I 4 APPLIOATION FILED 10u29, 1904. RENEWE'D A119921, 1900. l l v SHEETS-SHEET a.

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. UNITD STATES" y cLARENoE J. vooRiioRsnoii-Eincnco,ILLINOIS.

DIVISION-PLT'FQR EGG-CASES.'

To (LZZ whom t may concer-71;;

.Be it known. that 1, CLARENCE' J. VOOR- HORST, a citizen of the United StatesfresidL ing at Chicago, in the countynof Cookand State ofIllinois, lh ave madecertain new and useful vImprovements in Division-Plates for Egg-Cases Vor the Like,of which the following is aspeciication.

- My invention is .'an pocketed packing-plates for use in holding eggs, fruit, or other articles during transportation or storage; and the invention con- .sists-'in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, aswill be hereinafter dee scribed and claimed. f In the drawings, Figure 1 volving my invention. Fig. 1,8L view thereof. Fig. 2 is a detail cross-section on about line 2 2 of Fig. 1a. Fig. 3 is a crosssection on about line 3 3 of Fig. 1*?.-

is a top plan asection similar to Fig. 2, showing two of the vplates with the articles secured therein. Fig.

. 5jisa section similar to Fig. 4,showing several of thevdivision-plates arranged to receive the articles, the latter'being omitted; and' Fig. 6 is an edge view of several of the plates nested-Q By my invention I rovided a platein which pockets are projecte to both sldes' of an intermediatel plane, in which the curves of all adjacent pockets iny all directions merge on gradual lines with each other, in which no portion of the surface of the plate adjacent -to lts pocketsiis formed in a Hat plane, and

whose surface intermediate and unitingits 445 1 mouth, so that `the danger of breaking orl inj urmg the eggs, .article vof fruit, or other comi modity beingcan'ied is reduced to a minin vss . gathered 'on a'gathering-roll .into the the article soughtfto'be produced. In such machines, as is ,well known, the gatheringfrll 'y mum. The construction is also such asl to enable me to conveniently.. manufacture .the pocketed division-plate .on an ordinary' pa.

ulp isper-making Imachine,4 in which the' orm -of l Specification of Letters Patent. AApplication iile'd July 29, 19,04.' Renewed August 21. Serial No. 33.1.'521.

improvement iny this v is a perspectiveview-of a portion of a separating-plate 1n.

'pockets in all .receive the spherical body,

fof articles'such as a tscction' of such article -'angl'eand the b ases spondigly formed and,'like'tl1ose 'shown in Pateid Maren 19, 19o?.

dips into the duced within of the article to be produced. 'If, therefore, abrupt angles are produced at the mouth of the pockets, `the pulp will not gather at such pulpy mass and-exhaust is prothe gathering-roll, and the -mah yterial is caused to adhere to the perforated gathering-roll, which latter is given the form I points, and the completed article will Abe so -weak at the ymarginsof the pockets that the latter will readily break out. This renders it ixlrliportantto soform th'e article as toavoid -t e do by making the entire surface of the division-plate curved or waved uniformly, forming the alternate pockets, ,which open on opposite sides of thedivision-plate, so that the articles desired. 4 In the construction shown the divisionplates A, which may preferably beformed of paper-pulp, are shown as provided withthe upwardly-rounded portions A', forming the downwardly-opening pockets,"and with the downwardljhrounded portions A2, forming the upwardly-opening pockets, the adjacent directions being unitedV by a' gradual curved or waved surface, so that the open'end or mouth of each-pocket is flared gradual-ly in such manner as to avoid any injury to the article being packed 4at the margin or mouth of the pocket. As shown, the pockets are formed generally in spherical shape tol such as shown in Fig. 4.- It will be understood, however, that the pockets may be formed to receive articles of any desired uniform shape. It should be jroduction of angles'at any point, and

when'packed will alternate, as is understood that the shape of the article will also control the shape of the pocket, and in practice I find that the quarter-height secwords, the horizontal section taken at about mines generally the outline of the base or unit of the pocket to receive such article. Thus, as lindicated in Fig. 1 of the drawing, the outline of the base or unit of the pocket to receive a spherical article would be round,

vand the outline ofsuch bases will ordinarily 'tion of the article to be packed, or, in other 5 one-fourth ofthe height of the article, deterbe on straight lines and in a common plane.' x.,

Further, it will be understood that inthe case-"- j pear, which ordinarily `are carried on the side, the quarter-height will'approximate a triorfunits will be corre- Fig. 1, will be on straight lines and in a common plane.

Asjwill be understood from Figs. 4, 5, and 6, the boundary edges at a of the divisionplates A constitute extensions of the adjacent or border pockets, flaring outwardly at the mouth of said pockets, thus forming protecting -lips and also operating as spacing projections at the edge of the plate to abut a case in which the division-plates may be placed. Thus the plate being waved or curved uniformly in all directions to form the pockets is provided at its edges with the curved or waved marginal strips, which constitute protecting-lips for the row of pockets at the border of the plate and also operate as spacing projections at the edge of the plate.

As the greatest number of spherical or ovate units can be placed in a container ol given dimensions only when the units are so placed with reference to each other that they overlap to their respective middles, the obvious Way to maintain the units in this position is to provide a'separating-plate with pockets opening in alternate series on opposite sides of the plate, which result l secure by my construction in the most advantageous manner.

It will be noticed that the division-plates when made of paper-pulp or similar material Will be comparatively rigid as to their eggreceiving units or pockets and somewhat 'fiexible as to the lines along the curve-reversing line, so it will possess the strength or' the dome or arch in the pockets to protect the eggs and also the desired ilexibihty to permit its adjustment or yielding when in use.

ln practice the division-plates maybe separated into sections, so they can be used as packages in selling the eggs.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secure b v liet ters Patent, is-

l. As an improved article of manufacture, a poclieted division-plate for wicking-cases composed ot paper-pulp having its alternate pockets projecting from its opposite l'aees and having its curved pockets united each with the adjacent pockets by graduallycurved surfaces which curve in all directions on lines merging with the curvature ot the pockets and. in which no [lat-surltce meets a curved surface throughout the pocketed arca of the plate, the edges of the plate beingl waved longitudinally and curved transverseljv and forming protecting-lips ior thc border series of pockets and spacing projections at the edge of the plate, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A pocketed division-plate having similar pockets on both faces, and whose surface. intermediate and uniting its pockets is curved in all directions on lines merging with the curvature of the pockets.

CLARENCE J. VOQRHORST.

Vvlitnesses: l

SOLoN (l/KEMON, PERRY B. TURPiN.' 

